<H1>XORP Papers and Presentations</H1>

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<DT><a href="papers/policy.pdf">Decoupling Policy from Protocols</a>
<DD>Andrea Bittau, Mark Handley
<DD>This is a draft paper which discusses the XORP policy framework, the architectural problems we faced, and the solution deployed in XORP.
<DD>Feb 2006.
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<DT><a href="papers/xorp-future2.ppt">XORP Tutorial</a>
<DD>Mark Handley
<DD>Powerpoint presentation introducing the motivation behind XORP, the design and function of some of the major components, and some musings on where we're going.
<DD><a href="papers/xorp-future3.pdf">PDF version</a> without animations.
<DD>18th December 2005.
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<DT><a href="papers/xorp-nsdi.pdf">Designing Extensible IP Router Software</a>
<DD>Mark Handley, Eddie Kohler, Atanu Ghosh, Orion Hodson, Pavlin Radoslavov
<DD>In the proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2005.
<DD>This paper gives an idea of the XORP design philosophy, with
particular examples from BGP and the RIB.  It also includes a
preliminary performance evaluation. 
<P>

<DT><a href="papers/xorp-hotnets.pdf">XORP goals and architecture</a>
<DD>Mark Handley, Orion Hodson, Eddie Kohler.
<DD>A short paper that appeared on ACM SIGCOMM Hot Topics in
Networking 2002, which describes the goals and some key aspects of the
XORP architecture.
<P>

<DT><a href="papers/osr.pdf">Initial project proposal</a>
<DD>Mark Handley.
<DD>The original project proposal that started this all off in 2000.

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